Monthly Archives: April 2015

It’s Anzac Day. Red poppies. Parades. Talk of sacrifice and death. A recording of the Last Post and the solemnity of “Lest We Forget.” On Anzac Day itself we were never at school, but I remember sitting cross-legged on the … Continue reading →

Here is the cover for the new Verity novel, which is due to be released in August this year.  

I’ve just finished The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. I wish I’d read it when I was a child, along with Little Women and Anne of Green Gables. Because most of it – the most interesting part – … Continue reading →